Hacker News: quantiq

New comment by quantiq in "Anthropic S-1"

quantiq — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:26:39 +0000

I'm tired boss.

New comment by quantiq in "JetBrains Thinkrail"

quantiq — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:34:39 +0000

Not even using their own core engine is genuinely bleak.

New comment by quantiq in "JetBrains Thinkrail"

quantiq — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:28:22 +0000

> I think they said they will discontinue Air

That doesn't exactly inspire confidence that this product will stick around.

New comment by quantiq in "JetBrains Thinkrail"

quantiq — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:25:43 +0000

Their AI implementations are an absolute mess.

I know because I've tried practically all of their AI product offerings and not a single one feels coherent.

New comment by quantiq in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

quantiq — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:05:41 +0000

It still suffers the same problems as Junie, which is that their harness is far too bloated.

New comment by quantiq in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

quantiq — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:08:03 +0000

Yeah, I'm not even sure what this is, or whether or not this is even intended to be a serious project. It just comes across to me as deeply unprofessional. I say this as someone who doesn't even like Vercel and has their own gripes with that bizarrely run company.

The docs say that none of the code has been reviewed or tested properly, so how serious is this for people to run in a production setup where many companies are going are not going to be super enthused that their production environment has been 'vibecoded' in a week? It just reads to me like a not-so-subtle middle finger to the Vercel guys.

On a side note, I find it extremely weird that the current AI era of software development is turning the state of the entire field into a reenactment of Lord of the Flies. Bizarre behavior all around from people who should know better.

New comment by quantiq in "Show HN: GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs"

quantiq — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:43:57 +0000

We hired some LLM cowboy developer externals that were pushing out a plethora of PRs daily and a large portion of our team's time at one point was dedicated entirely to just doing PR reviews. Eventually we let them go, and the last few months for us has been dedicated to cleaning up vast quantities of unmaintainable LLM code that's entered our codebase.

I think it's still early days, and it's probably the case that a lot of software development teams have yet to realize that a team basically just doing PR reviews is a strong indication that a codebase is very quickly trending away from maintainability. Our team is still heavily using LLMs and coding agents, but our PR backlog recently has been very manageable.

I suspect we'll start seeing a lot of teams realize they're inundated with tech debt as soon as it becomes difficult for even LLMs to maintain their codebases. The "go fast and spit out as much code as humanly possible" trend that I think has infected software development will eventually come back to bite quite a few companies.

New comment by quantiq in "The Last Programmers?"

quantiq — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:57:29 +0000

> The only bottleneck is mdoel (sic) speed and quality. But with billions of dollars pouring into generative AI every year, we will see instant voice-to-code capabilities + bug-free quality in 2-5 years.

Anytime I think the AI bubble can't go any higher I'm reminded of the fact there are people who genuinely believe this. These are the people boardrooms are listening to despite the evidence for actual developer productivity savings being dubious at best: https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

New comment by quantiq in "Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated"

quantiq — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:16:29 +0000

Yeah, I'm not putting stock in this at all. The methodology of this survey seems dubious.

New comment by quantiq in "Nobody knows how to build with AI yet"

quantiq — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:00:32 +0000

This has to be someone working solely on personal projects right? Because I don't know anyone who actually works like this and frequently the code that AI will spit out is actually quite bad.

New comment by quantiq in "Last year, an unknown person took nominal control over OpenAI's startup fund"

quantiq — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 15:34:04 +0000

>The Orchard is a two story affordable housing complex in Santa Ana, California. It serves the area's chronically homeless residents

I think the reason for all of this is actually fairly boring. Someone with a history of mental illness and/or schizophrenia filing fraudulent documents and writing nonsense chatGPT code assuming it is some kind of AGI-singularity-oracle. It wouldn't be the first time I've seen someone with a history of mental illness assume these systems are more capable than what they actually are in reality.

New comment by quantiq in "Django 5.0"

quantiq — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:56:46 +0000

Django is such a lovely framework I can't speak higher praises of it. I'm blessed to still be able to use it in my day to day work. It's maybe not the most flashy framework out there these days but Django and Rails are really the Toyota Corollas and Honda Civics of the web dev world that often go so underappreciated for their unfussy reliability. :)

AI Doomers are worse than wrong – they're incompetent

quantiq — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:33:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/ai-doomers-are-worse-than-wrong-theyre

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407321

Points: 53

# Comments: 24

New comment by quantiq in "Why ChatGPT and Bing Chat are so good at making things up"

quantiq — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 17:29:59 +0000

> They're good at SO MUCH OTHER STUFF. The challenge is figuring out what that other stuff is.

I’m getting Déjà vu

New comment by quantiq in "Work-from-home is the new normal in Canada"

quantiq — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 17:19:43 +0000

The housing crisis has cemented in people’s minds that living in Vancouver or the GTA is essentially an impossible feat because everything is zoned for cars and single-family housing.

I suppose if your POV is very narrow and limited, then yes it is impossible. But giving up easily when things become difficult is a Canadian cultural staple, so rural dying towns for everyone it is.

New comment by quantiq in "GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question"

quantiq — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:15:34 +0000

>I'm a little tired of the arguments that the large language models are just regurgitating memorized output

The arguments are valid and you haven’t provided a single counterpoint. Data leakage is a well known problem in machine learning and OpenAI has seemingly done very little to mitigate against it.

New comment by quantiq in "Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service"

quantiq — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:28:24 +0000

I see a lot of parallels here to crypto and NFTs where people start inventing use cases for technologies that fundamentally haven’t demonstrated business value, and pray that one day business value will show up out of nowhere.

New comment by quantiq in "Alpine.js"

quantiq — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 22:39:44 +0000

Exactly. I used alpine in combination with django for a project and it quickly became a nightmare to maintain when alpine started to take care of app logic / SPA-type reactivity.

Alpine is just not designed with that sort of application in mind, nor should it be.